>>2249314detailed binaural heads have serious drawbacks for immersive audio anyway; they don't work the same way for everyone, they only reproduce sound in one hemisphere (usually behind the head although a small percentage of people interpret the recording from the anterior hemisphere), and they don't work well at all through loudspeakers. they're somewhat good for VR and great for doing certain acoustic measurements and other limited uses but they aren't actually as aesthetically pleasing or versatile as other recording methods.
and yep, I do recordings with a few different techniques that range from true binaural (when I need people to listen with headphones) near-binaural or baffled stereo (bowling ball or jecklin disk, retains ILD and ITD but without specific pinna cues), and sometimes just incident pairs like XY recording with directional mics or my stereo shotgun.
All depends what you're trying to achieve but for me my gold standard is the jecklin with omni mics. Sound amazing on everything from home stereo to laptop to headphones.
>pic is binaural bowling ball which I don't use much but is lots of fun and the binaural effect is quite vividhttps://youtu.be/qV_0EZvmJWw 